Blue Note Label Group

• Angel Records
  Angel Records
  Angel Records is a record label belonging to EMI. It was formed in 1953 and specialised in classical music, but included an occasional operetta or Broadway score...
  
  
• Blue Note Records
  Blue Note Records
  Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...
  
  
• Manhattan Records
  Manhattan Records
  Manhattan Records is a United States record label, owned by EMI and operates as a subsidiary of The Blue Note Label Group.-Company history:Manhattan Records was formed in 1984 by Bruce Lundvall, and was later renamed EMI Manhattan Records after absorbing EMI America Records imprint...
  
  
• Narada Productions
  Narada Productions
  Narada is a record label formed 1983 as an independent New Age music label and distributed by MCA Records. Now a fully owned subsidiary of EMI, Narada evolved through an expansion of formats to include music from other styles including world music, jazz, Celtic music, new flamenco, acoustic guitar...
  
  
  • Back Porch Records
    Back Porch Records
    Back Porch Records is an Americana/Roots rock label owned by EMI Music. The label was started in 1997 as joint venture between Virgin Records and Milwaukee-based Narada Productions. The labels initial releases, including the popular I-10 Chronicles compilations, were produced by Virgin Records...
    
    
  • Higher Octave Music
• EMI Classics
  EMI Classics
  EMI Classics is a record label of EMI, formed in 1990 in order to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogs for internationally distributed classical music releases....
  
  
• Virgin Classics

Capitol Music Group

Capitol Music Group

Capitol Music Group is a major record label, a wholly owned subsidiary of EMI.-History:It was formed in February 2007 as a merger of Virgin Records and Capitol Records in an effort by EMI to restructure and save an average of $217 million yearly...

• Capitol Records
  Capitol Records
  Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
  
  
• Imperial Records
• Priority Records
  Priority Records
  Priority Records is an American record label, owned and operated by EMI, which has made a name for itself dealing primarily in hip hop, pop and world...
  
  
• Get Money Gang Entertainment
  Get Money Gang Entertainment
  GMG Entertainment, or Get Money Gang Entertainment, is a hip hop and contemporary R&B record label founded in Chicago, Illinois by recording artist Twista...
  
   (EMI Label Services)
• Ice H20 Records (EMI Label Services)
• Lench Mob Records
  Lench Mob Records
  Lench Mob Records is an independently owned record label owned by Los Angeles rapper and actor Ice Cube. It was once home to many of Cube's former allies such as DJ Pooh, and Lench Mob's own Chilly Chill, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Kam, female rapper Yo Yo and the group Da Lench Mob...
  
   (EMI Label Services)
• Twenty-Two Recordings (EMI Label Services)

Caroline Distribution

Caroline Distribution

Caroline Distribution, founded in 1983 as a unit of Virgin Records, has become one of the U.S. music industry’s largest third party distribution companies for the independent music sector....

• Astralwerks Records
• Caroline Records
  Caroline Records
  Caroline Records started out as a subsidiary of Richard Branson's Virgin Records label during the early to mid 1970s. The label originally specialized in putting out budget price LPs by mainly progressive rock and jazz artists generally not considered to have a great deal of 'mainstream' or...
  
  
• Definitive Jux Records
• The Front Line
• Fuel Records
  Fuel Records
  Fuel Records is an Orlando, Florida based record label.It has offices in NYC and Los Angeles and is an independent record label that was co-founded by a multi Grammy winning Artist/Producer. Distributed via EMI and embraces the genres of Alternative Rock and Rock music...
  
   (US)
• Gracie Productions
• Gyroscope Records
• Merovingian Music
  Merovingian Music
  Merovingian Music also abbreviated as MRV or MRV Music, is a non-genre specific record label based out of Red Bank, New Jersey. The label was founded by industry veteran Jack Ponti who currently serves as CEO of the company...
  
  
• Nature Sounds
  Nature Sounds
  Nature Sounds is a record label based in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in hip hop and reggae music.-Discography:*Ayatollah - Fingertips *Ayatollah - Live From The MPC 60 *Ayatollah - Cocoon...
  
  
  • Green Streets Entertainment
• Stones Throw Records
  Stones Throw Records
  Stones Throw Records is an independent hip hop record label based in Los Angeles, California. It was started in 1996 by DJ/Producer Peanut Butter Wolf in part to release the music he made with Charizma who was killed at the age of 20....
  
  

EMI Christian Music Group

EMI Christian Music Group

EMI Christian Music Group is a subsidiary of EMI which contains its Christian music record labels, and is headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee...

• Credential Recordings
  Credential Recordings
  Credential Recordings is a Nashville-based record label, focusing generally on the pop rock genre. It began branching out when it agreed on a distribution agreement with Lowercase people records for Switchfoot singer Jon Foreman's solo EPs, which tend to be more folk-acoustic in style...
  
  
• EMI Gospel
• Forefront Records
  ForeFront Records
  ForeFront Records is a Christian Music record label founded in 1987 by Dan R. Brock, Eddie DeGarmo, Dana Key, and Ron W. Griffin. It was purchased by EMI in 1996 from current owners Dan R. Brock and Eddie DeGarmo and is now part of the EMI Christian Music Group.In 1998, ForeFront released a 2-CD...
  
  
• Sparrow Records
  Sparrow Records
  -Background:Sparrow Records was founded in 1976 by Billy Ray Hearn, then A&R director at Myrrh Records. Purchased by EMI in 1992, it is now part of the EMI Christian Music Group, and has been named by Billboard Magazine as "America's Best Christian Music Record Label"...
  
  
  • Re:Think
    Rethink (record label)
    Re:think was an imprint label of under EMI. It signed several acts, including This World Fair, The Colour, Sarah Masen and Switchfoot. Re:think is well-known for supporting the ONE Campaign as well as the lowercase people Justice Fund.-History:...
    
    
• Tooth and Nail Records
  • BEC Recordings
    BEC Recordings
    BEC Recordings is a Christian rock record label that is a subsidiary of Tooth and Nail Records. The label was formed in 1997 in partnership with the EMI Christian Music Group....
    
    
  • Solid State Records
    Solid State Records
    Solid State Records is a Christian record label, a division of Tooth & Nail Records. Unlike Tooth & Nail, Solid State signs hardcore and metal bands. Like Tooth & Nail, Solid State is primarily a Christian label. However, they have signed several bands that don't label themselves as Christian,...
    
    
• VSR Music Group

Virgin Music Group

• Virgin Records
  Virgin Records
  Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...
  
  
• Astralwerks
  Astralwerks
  Astralwerks is a New York-based record label that releases primarily electronic music. It is owned by Virgin Records/EMI and distributed by Caroline Distribution in the United States....
  
  
• Charisma Records
  Charisma Records
  Charisma was a record label founded by former journalist Tony Stratton-Smith in 1969. Manager for The Nice, the Bonzo Dog Band and Van der Graaf Generator at the time, Stratton-Smith was unable to find a record company willing to release an album by one of his favourite groups so he founded his own...
  
  
• Delabel (France)
• Relentless Records
  Relentless Records
  Relentless Records, founded by Shabs Jobanputra and Paul Franklyn in 1999 is now a part of Sony Music based in London, UK. Having achieved large scale successes with Joss Stone, KT Tunstall and several urban artists such as Artful Dodger and So Solid Crew, the label is now building a small focused...
  
  
• Venture Records
• 10 Records

Stand-alone labels

• EMI Records
  EMI Records
  EMI Records is the flagship record label founded by the EMI company in 1972 and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia label. The EMI label was launched worldwide...
  
  
• Capitol Records Nashville
  Capitol Records Nashville
  Capitol Records Nashville is a major United States-based record label located in Nashville Tennessee operating as part of the Capitol Music Group. Capitol Nashville was formerly known as Liberty Records from 1989 until 1995 when it was changed back to Capitol in 1993 Liberty opened a sister label...
  
  
• EMI Hemisphere
  EMI Hemisphere
  EMI Hemisphere is a world music record label imprint of EMI.Founded by Gerald Seligman in 1993, it drew on music from the international catalogues of EMI Records, supplemented by its own signings and some outside licensing. It was one of the first, international labels to extensively compile music...
  
  
• Liberty Records
  Liberty Records
  Liberty Records was a United States-based record label. It was started by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Al Bennett as president and Theodore Keep as chief engineer. It was reactivated in 2001 in the United Kingdom and had two previous revivals.-1950s:...
  
  
• Parlophone Records
  • Regal Recordings
    Regal Recordings
    Regal Recordings is a British record label functioning as an imprint of Parlophone.-Background:Regal Records was a British record label founded in 1914 as a subsidiary of the UK branch of Columbia Records known as Columbia Graphophone Company...
    
    
• Positiva Records
  Positiva Records
  Positiva Records is a subsidiary of EMI Records and is one of the biggest dance music labels in the UK. The record label was set up in 1993, by Nick Halkes, who previously ran XL Recordings . Its headquarters are at the EMI offices in Brook Green in West London, where it is currently the only large...
  
  
• Stateside Records
  Stateside Records
  Stateside Records is a British record label which initially released licenced American recordings and is now a reissue label....
  
  

Europe

• EMIDISC
• EMI Europe Generic
• EMI Music France (formerly EMI Pathé)
  • Pathé Records
    Pathé Records
    Pathé Records was a France-based international record label and producer of phonographs, active from the 1890s through the 1930s.- Early years :...
    
    
  • Hostile Delabel
  • Livin' Astro
• EMI Gold
• EMI Music Germany (formerly EMI Electrola)
  • Electrola
    Electrola
    Electrola was a record label founded in Berlin in 1925 by the Gramophone Company. In March 1931 Electrola, along with its parent label and Carl Lindström Company parent Columbia Graphophone Company, merged to form the Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. . The German EMI unit was first called...
    
    
• Pomaton EMI (domestic trade name in Poland
  Poland
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
  
  )
• EMI Music Spain (formerly EMI Odeon)
  • Hispavox
  • Odeon Records
    Odeon Records
    Odeon Records was a record label founded in 1903 by Max Straus and Heinrich Zuntz of the International Talking Machine Company in Berlin, Germany. It was named after a famous theatre in Paris, whose classical dome appears on the Odeon record label....
    
    
• Minos EMI
  Minos EMI
  Minos EMI is the domestic trade name of EMI Music Greece, a record company in Greece. It is the Greek record label division of the British-based, multinational EMI Group....
  
   (domestic trade name in Greece)
• EMI Czech Republic
  EMI Czech Republic
  EMI Czech Republic is a record label in Czech Republic. Initially it was label Monitor. It was bought by EMI Records in 1994 and continued under the name Monitor / EMI s.r.o. Later it was renamed to EMI Czech Republic s.r.o....
  
  
• EMI Kent Music (domestic trade name in Turkey
  Turkey
  Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
  
  )

South America

• EMI Latin
  EMI Latin
  EMI Televisa Music, also known as EMI Latin and EMI International, is a subsidiary of EMI which focuses on Latin American music....
  
  
  • EMI Televisa Music
    EMI Televisa Music
    EMI Televisa Music is a record label established in 2005 as a partnership between EMI and Televisa. It focuses on Latin American music.- Artists signed to this label :*A.B...
    
    
• Reliquias
  Relíquias
  Relíquias is a Portuguese parish in the municipality of Odemira. It has a population of 1,108 and an area of 120.02 km²....
  
   (domestic trade name in Argentina
  Argentina
  Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
  
   - licensed not owned)

Asia

• EMI Arabia
  • Soutelphan
  • Alam El Phan
    Alam El Phan
    Alam el Phan is an Egyptian record label based in Cairo that supervises, manages, and produces Arabic music records and movies.-History:...
    
    
  • Relax-in International
  • Farasan
  • Rotana Records
    Rotana Records
    Rotana Records is the Arab World's largest record label. It is owned by the Rotana Group, established by the Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, who sometimes personally signs artists to the label. Rotana Records is part of a huge media empire that includes a film production company, a magazine in...
    
    
• Arka Music Indonesia
• GramCo
  Sa Re Ga Ma
  Saregama India Limited, formerly The Gramophone Company of India is an Indian music company. Saregama also works in the home video business...
  
   (domestic trade name in India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  , former EMI licensee)
• EMI Music Group Australia Pty Ltd
• EMI Music Pakistan
• EMI Music Japan (formerly Toshiba-EMI
  Toshiba-EMI
  (formerly , is one of Japan's leading music companies. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of British music company EMI Group Ltd. in June 30, 2007 after Toshiba sold off its previous 45% stake. The current CEO and president is San-e Ichii. When EMI Music Japan was trading as Toshiba-EMI, it was...
  
  )
• EMI Music Malaysia (defunct in 2008)
  • Positive Tone
    Positive Tone
    Positive Tone is a Malaysian music production house and it is a subsidiary of EMI Malaysia Sdn Bhd. Some of the company's famous act includes Too Phat, Poetic Ammo, Juliet the Orange, Red Hot Reiner Peppers and Innuendo. The current Managing Director is Darren Choy....
    
    
• Gold Typhoon (domestic trade name in China
  China
  Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
  
  , merger of EMI Music China and Gold Label, also applied in both Hong Kong and Taiwan)
  • Path Orient
• EMI Music Taiwan
• PolyEast Records
  PolyEast Records
  PolyEast Records is a record label in the Philippines. It is the international licensee of EMI Internationa and is a member of the Philippine Association of the Record Industry.-History:...
  
   (domestic trade name in the Philippines
  Philippines
  The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
  
  , co-owned with Jesmond Chua's Pied Piper and Universal Records
  Universal Records (Philippines)
  Universal Records Philippines Inc. is a Filipino record label founded in 1977 as a part of Warner Music Group. Since 1992, it became independent.-History:URPI was founded in 1977 as WEA Records Philippines Inc...
  
  )
  • Galaxy Records

Defunct labels

• 2kSounds
• Columbia Graphophone Company
  Columbia Graphophone Company
  The Columbia Graphophone Company was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom. Under EMI, as Columbia Records, it became a very successful label in the 1950s and 1960s...
  
   (EMI's Columbia Records, outside of the US, until the 1970s)
• Ministry of Sound (UK) Pty Ltd
  Ministry of Sound
  Ministry of Sound London, commonly referred to as simply Ministry of Sound or MoS, is a nightclub based in London, United Kingdom and an associated record label. It was ranked fourth in the 2010 DJ Magazine top 100 clubs poll 2010. As well as the nightclub in London, there is another in Egypt and...
  
   (Australian subsidiary of Ministry of Sound Recordings Ltd, now operating independently as Ministry of Sound Australia Pty Ltd with distribution handled by Universal Music Australia)
• EMI Films
  EMI Films
  EMI Films was a British film and television production company and distributor. The company was formed after the takeover of Associated British Picture Corporation in 1968 by EMI....
  
  
• Harvest Records
  Harvest Records
  -References:* Harvest Records collectors guide ISBN 978-5-9622-0021-7...
  
  
• His Master's Voice
  HMV
  His Master's Voice is a trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up gramophone...
  
  
• RAK Records
  RAK Records
  Rak Records was a British record label, founded by record producer Mickie Most in 1969. Rak was home of artists like Herman's Hermits, Suzi Quatro, Mud, Kenny, Hot Chocolate, Smokie, Arrows, Span, Racey and Kim Wilde. Rak Records were distributed via a licensing deal with EMI, which bought the...
  
  
• Regal Zonophone Records
  Regal Zonophone Records
  Regal Zonophone Records was a British record label formed in 1932, through a merger of the Regal Records and Zonophone Records labels. This followed the merger of those labels' respective parent companies - the Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company - to form EMI.Originally Regal...
  
  
• EMI Records Group
  • Chrysalis Records
    Chrysalis Records
    Chrysalis Records was a British record label that was created in 1969. The name was both a reference to the pupal stage of a butterfly and a combination of its founders names, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis...
    
    
  • SBK Records
    SBK Records
    SBK Records was a record label of the EMI Group that was founded in 1988.Stephen Swid, Martin Bandier, and Charles Koppelman formed the production company SBK in 1989 after they purchased the music publishing division of CBS Records in 1986....
    
    
  • Pendulum Records
  • Wild Pitch Records
    Wild Pitch Records
    Wild Pitch Records was a hip hop record label started in the mid 1980s by Stuart Fine and was eventually distributed by EMI and eventually acquired by Jay Faires, who tried to reactivate it as part of his short-lived JCOR Entertainment label...
    
    
• Top Rank Records
  Rank Organisation
  The Rank Organisation was a British entertainment company formed during 1937 and absorbed in 1996 by The Rank Group Plc. It was the largest and most vertically-integrated film company in Britain, owning production, distribution and exhibition facilities....